Having spent only a few hours cooking up the first vb app to talk to my array, I shouldn’t be surprised that its performance was rather lack luster, not to mention the wiggly lines on the bar graph although visually stimulating really offered nothing in terms of interpretation.
Here is a view of the new application… I’ve re-designed a good deal of the internals, and changed the graph around so it represents more clearly the data being received from the array. Each row in the bargraph represents a row in the array, and the height of each bar indicates the amount of light the sensor is receiving.
So as I interact with the array, the bars follow along.
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This is a fantastic project, i’m very impressed with how far you are going with it. I am interested in build a basic array, but programming is my weakness. I was wondering what language you used for the 6 LED array (LED Sensor II) to make the bar graphs. I’m hoping to build my system without using microcontrollers (since I haven’t before), but i would like to take a look ar your program if you would be willing to share it.
Thanks!
Al
April 3rd, 2006
that windows bargraph thing is visual basic … all it does is receive a stream of numbers from the microcontroller managing the sensors, and assigns them to bargraph values.
without a microcontroller, you’d need to know some low level programming skills for x86 assembler in order to recreate what the microcontroller does very simply - in other words, you must use a microcontroller.
I’ll dig out the vb code and link to it here, but again, all its doing is plotting numbers on a bargraph, nothing else.
justDIY
April 3rd, 2006